Estetica delle periferie urbane. Analisi semantica dei linguaggi dell’architettura spontanea
Urban periphery has always been viewed in scientific literature as negative: “degraded place” at best, “no place” in a commonly accepted definition. A closer look to a zoned suburb without aesthetic qualities, reveals that there are actually spontaneous realities with a clear figurative identity and a well-defined vocabulary. Based on a concept of “new survey” […]
Disegno design. Natura morta e vita metafisica
Life and death, drawing and design, four words insidiously entwined in a metaphysical embrace, is it not too much for a book that deals with the importance of the industrial object? Adriana Rossi shows where are the logical, although unusual, connections. The proposed reading key resides in the creative process dynamics, to which – this […]
Rappresentazione e verità
The volume contains the proceedings of the seminar organized by Vittorio Ugo at the Politecnico di Milano on 22nd and 23rd of March in 2004.
Il disegno automatico tra progetto e rilievo
This book addresses issues of computer-assisted representation, avoiding to act as a manual for education of special techniques. Instead it identifies the logical processes by which the programs themselves can operate and illustrates the operation method independent of individual applications, seeking rather the methodological comparison with the laws governing geometry of projections, optics and perception, […]
Rappresentazione antica del territorio
The story of drawing highlights the imponderable transition stages from depiction to representation; the moments when the graphic act corresponds to a, pursued and achieved, conscious mental power; the path that takes from the description of a real event to learning and then the drawing, abstract from reality. The history of territory representation, or portions […]
Percezione e comunicazione visiva dell’architettura
The terms “perception” and “communication”, referring to architecture and its representation, are now widely abused with often antiquated and superficial meanings. This book seeks to reveal their physiological and cultural foundations and to clarify their relationship with semiotics, with iconography and design in order to understand the processes by which architecture is conceived and expressed.A […]
De vulgari architectura. Indagine sui luoghi urbani irrisolti
This book suggests that the Architectura Vulgaris, namely the proliferation of structures in decay, of incoherent agglomerated buildings, unused areas of the suburbs of each city, where the role of the designer is most ineffective, is not just a kind of urban pest, but a fertile environment where more spontaneous forms of construction are born.It […]
Il disegno signorile. Domus 1930-40. Grafica per la pubblicità e l’arredo
The graphic production contained in the pages of the magazine “Domus” in the decade from 1930 to 1940, shows a remarkable originality, even compared to similar European magazines of the time. Perhaps the level of sophistication changes, but not at the expense of a readable creativity.There really is in many cases a true happiness of […]
Dell’Architettura Civile di Baldassarre Orsini
The volume contains the transcription as well as the historical-critical analysis of the first volume of the treatise “About Civil Architecture”, an unpublished work of the eighteenth-century “painter-philosopher” Baldassarre Orsini: a manuscript that, although designed with specific educational purposes (Orsini, long-director of the ancient Academy of Design in Perugia, is a believer in the need […]
Il disegno cifrato. Ermeneusi storica del disegno d’architettura
Drawings inspired by architecture, and made for the architecture, are an endless source of information about a historical background which is continuously sifted through a cultural present in constant transformation. This fundamental premise is the basis for a critical analysis of the reasons and sometimes misunderstandings that have influenced the transformation of the codes of […]